1. Make a battleship grid using words instead of number/letter combinations (after learning about phonetic sounds the students may make their own grids)
2. Grid coordinates should be words representing phonetic sounds, inside the grid have words to make short sentences
3. Give coordinates "hat-door" to eventually uncover the sentence. Phonetics resource Pronunciation resource
Discuss an image
Questions to get them talking:
What do you see? Who are the characters? What is their relationship? How are they dressed? What colours are used? What impression do the colours give? Is there symmetry, balance? What are the focal points? Light, Dark, Contrast? Details? The title is "xxxx", does that give you any insight?
Flower Carrier by Diego Rivera
Hårvask 2 by Rolf Groven
These are two examples, there are millions of images outthere though, so find one that you think will appeal to your students.
Show and Tell
Newspaper article, something in backpack, favourite song, favourite book, something that represents you, top 10
Interviews
1.Have students develop a set of interview questions.
2. They can either interview one person in-depth (stranger, friend, family member, professional)
3. Or they can interview 5-10 people to then compare their answers.
4. Present their findings.
ABCs
1. Choose a theme.
2. Students get in pairs, or the whole class can be used.
3. Each person says a statement that relates to the previous statement, but it must start with the next letter of the alphabet.
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Pronunciation Battleship
1. Make a battleship grid using words instead of number/letter combinations (after learning about phonetic sounds the students may make their own grids)2. Grid coordinates should be words representing phonetic sounds, inside the grid have words to make short sentences
3. Give coordinates "hat-door" to eventually uncover the sentence.
Phonetics resource
Pronunciation resource
Discuss an image
Questions to get them talking:What do you see? Who are the characters? What is their relationship? How are they dressed? What colours are used? What impression do the colours give? Is there symmetry, balance? What are the focal points? Light, Dark, Contrast? Details? The title is "xxxx", does that give you any insight?
These are two examples, there are millions of images out there though, so find one that you think will appeal to your students.
Show and Tell
Newspaper article, something in backpack, favourite song, favourite book, something that represents you, top 10Interviews
1.Have students develop a set of interview questions.2. They can either interview one person in-depth (stranger, friend, family member, professional)
3. Or they can interview 5-10 people to then compare their answers.
4. Present their findings.
ABCs
1. Choose a theme.2. Students get in pairs, or the whole class can be used.
3. Each person says a statement that relates to the previous statement, but it must start with the next letter of the alphabet.